Workshop on Cicero's Academici Libri
Organised by Valentina Arena
Programme
Friday, May 9
1.20 at the Porters' Lodge, Brasenose College
1.30-2 pm, Medieval kitchen
Coffee/tea
2-6pm, Stocker Room
- 2.30-2.45pm: FRRAnt introduction
- 2.45-3.45pm: Giorgio Piras, 'Varro philosophus': the character of Varro in Cicero's Academica
- 3.45-4.45pm: Orazio Capello, Thinking Historically in Philosophy: Models of Philosophical Historiography in Cicero
4.45-5pm: coffee/tea
5-6pm: David Blank, Diogenes of Babylon, Antiochus, and the History of Academic Epistemology in Cicero
6.00pm: Concert, Brasenose Chapel
Katelyn Emerson will showcase the magnificent Orgues de Facto instrument, now housed in the Chapel. She will perform a varied programme including works by Rachel Laurin, Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Antonio Vivaldi arranged by JS Bach, Ethel Smyth and Charles-Marie Widor.
7.00pm: drink reception, Amersi
Saturday, May 10
9.30am, Old Library
- 9.30-10.30am: Irene Leonardis, Approaching Varro: Cicero's opening gambit through the Academici libri
- 10.30-11.30am: Yelena Baraz, Meeting in the middle: translation and/as access to knowledge
11.30-11.45am: coffee/tea break
11.45-12.45pm: Ermanno Malaspina, The studia of Lucullus, Varro and Cicero: A reappraisal in the light of the letters to Atticus and Fam. IX, 8.
1pm: lunch
2.30-3.30pm: Stephen Blair, Cicero's Academici Libri and FRRAnt
4.00pm: conclusion